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Writer, Henry Hugh Proctor was born, 1868

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ALS Awareness Month – #ALSAwareness (conclusion)

In Canada, June has been declared as ALS Awareness Month by the Canadian Minister of

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From the Slave Quarters to the Courtroom: The Story of the First African American Attorney in the United States - Birthday

William Henry Johnson was born into slavery in Richmond, Virginia on July 16, 1811.

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1811

ALS Awareness Month – #ALSAwareness (Week 2)

I noted in last week’s article that awareness days, weeks and months are helpful as they heighten awareness around a specific cause, start conversations and have spurred charity events and information

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WAKESHO: Communities with insecure tenure more vulnerable

Communities with insecure tenure more vulnerable

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20th-Century Novelist

Dorothy West, born in 1910 and raised in Boston, became a leading novelist, short-story writer, editor, and columnist. Her novelThe Living Is Easy (about growing up Black in Boston) was published in 1948; currently she writes a column for theVineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard Island.

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MIAMI-DADE Seniors prevail – thanks to parents

Quenay, who was a dancer and cheerleader for the Miami Northwestern Bulls, said she couldn’t thank her mother enough for making her graduation special despite the challenges they have faced as a senior class this

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Etta James Profile - Songs, Biography, and History

One of the R&B and blues worlds greatest divas, Etta James gave the genre a boost into the mainstream and helped develop the rock craze in the process with her 1965 hit The Wallflower (aka Roll With Me, Henry). Her signature song, 1961s At Last, is one of the most popular wedding soundtracks of

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20

2012

Bernard Binlin Dadié

Bernard Binlin Dadié , (born 1916, Assini, Côte d’Ivoire), Ivoirian poet, dramatist, novelist, and administrator whose works have been inspired both by traditional themes from Africa’s past and by a need to assert the modern African’s desire for equality, dignity, and

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Dan Jacobson - Birthday

Dan Jacobson , (born March 7, 1929, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 12, 2014, London, England), South African-born novelist and short-story writer who wrote with both humour and pathos of the troubled land of his birth and of his eastern European Jewish heritage, though in his later work he

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Mar

7

1929

New York state senator Myrie pepper sprayed during protest as police target journalists

As protest marches spread in over 75 US cities following the demise of Minneapolis resident George Floyd while in police custody, some of the demonstrators are counting the cost following the loss of a body part or

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Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner , in full Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner, pseudonym Ralph Iron (born March 24, 1855, Wittebergen, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]—died Dec. 11, 1920, Cape Town, S.Af.), writer who produced the first great South African novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). She had

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Mar

24

1855

Father and Son Release Emotional "I Can't Breathe" Song About George Floyd That Takes Your Breath Away

A breath-taking song written in memory of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless other victims of racial profiling, police brutality, and police

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Lewis, Henry Jay (1932-1996) - Birthday

Henry Jay Lewis, musician and conductor, was born October 16, 1932 in Los Angeles to automobile dealer Henry J.

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16

1932

John Pepper Clark

John Pepper Clark , pseudonym J.P. Clark-Bekederemo (born April 6, 1935, Kiagbodo, Nigeria), the most lyrical of the Nigerian poets, whose poetry celebrates the physical landscape of Africa. He was also a journalist, playwright, and scholar-critic who conducted research into traditional Ijo myths

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Apr

6

1935

'Damn Ryan': 'Black Ink Crew: Chicago' Star Ryan Henry Drives Fans Insane In New Photo Looking 'Like a Snack'

The “Black Ink Crew: Chicago” star took to Instagram on Thursday, May 21, and flaunted his good looks in a stunning

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Baltasar Lopes - Birthday

Baltasar Lopes , in full Baltasar Lopes da Silva, Baltasar also spelled Baltazar, pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara (born April 23, 1907, Calejão, São Nicolau, Cape Verde Islands—died May 28, 1989, São Vicente, Cape Verde), African poet, novelist, and short-story writer, who was instrumental in the

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Apr

23

1907

Nuruddin Farah , (born 1945, Baidoa, Italian Somaliland [now in Somalia]), Somali writer whose rich imagination and refreshing and often fortuitous use of his adopted language made him the most significant Somali writer in any European

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Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972) - Birthday

Dusanne was born Zola Graves on March 24, 1884 in Kansas to Letitia Denny and John Henry Graves, a stonemason.

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Mar

24

1884

Robert C. Hayden, Author/Historian

Robert C. Hayden has been the leading researcher and writer of Boston African-American history for over 20 years. From 1974-1983 he wrote a weekly column entitled 'Boston's Black History' forThe Bay State Banner newspaper. His other works includeFaith, Culture and Leadership: A History of the Black

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Alan Paton - Birthday

Alan Paton , in full Alan Stewart Paton (born January 11, 1903, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa—died April 12, 1988, near Durban, Natal), South African writer, best known for his first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a passionate tale of racial injustice that brought international

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Jan

11

1903

The parables of Jesus modernized for a contemporary audience (Week 1)

A minister on his way to his car after Bible Study saw the woman lying on the ground, side-eyed her, could hear her moaning and was relieved she was not

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Mark Cuban Makes $100K Donation to NABJ’s COVID-19 Relief Fund

A $100,000 donation to the National Association of Black Journalists by Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban was made in honor of two long-time Dallas/Fort Worth journalists who both passed away in

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Ellis, William Henry (1864-1923) - Birthday

William Henry Ellis, an African American businessman who challenged racial constructs in the United States by “passing” as Hispanic, was born a slave to Charles and Margaret Ellis on June 15, 1864.

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15

1864

Zaya Wade Gets A Major Gig Photographing Gabrielle Union For The June Issue Of Self Magazine

Gabrielle Union is turning up the heat as the cover star of Self magazine's June Issue, photographed by her stepdaughter, Zaya

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Davidson Nicol , in full Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, also called Abioseh Nicol (born Sept. 14, 1924, Freetown, Sierra Leone—died Sept. 20, 1994, Cambridge, Eng.), Sierra Leonean diplomat, physician, medical researcher, and writer whose short stories and poems are among the best to

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Lorraine Hansberry

The granddaughter of a freed slave, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, to a successful real estate broker and a school teacher who resided in Chicago, Illinois. In 1938, the family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by its inhabitants but the former refused to

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19

1930

William Wells Brown: First African-American Novelist and Playwright

In 1847, while speaking to members of the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, Ma., abolitionist William Wells Brown said, Were I about to tell you the evils of Slavery, to represent to you the Slave in his lowest degradation, I should wish to take you, one at a time, and whisper it to

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UNITY IN DAYTONA –

About 500 people participated in the “I Can’t Breathe’’ protest in Daytona Beach the evening of June

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First Black Professor of Dentistry

Dr. Joseph L. Henry was the first African-American professor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine with his appointment in 1974. He created the department of oral diagnosis and oral radiology which he still heads. In 1978 Dr. Henry became the first African-American to become an Associate Dean at

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7 famous celebrities you probably didn't know graduated from Ivy League schools

Novieku-Babatunde Adeola is a content writer, social media strategist, entertainment journalist, freelance PR practitioner and event

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